Hypocrisy on Film: The Grand Old Party on Medicare

For all that the press gleefully reports on how the leaders in the party of “family values” fail to live up to the standards they regularly hold others to, it’s this kind of hypocrisy that makes my blood boil. Preying on the fears of the elderly by claiming Obama’s health care plan will destroy Medicare is evil; preying on those fears as the party that has been trying to end Medicare for years is evil and disgusting.

Recent Posts: Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

I’ve been working with a small group to come up with strategies that will help faculty and their institutions respond to challenges to academic freedom. These challenges aren’t particularly new, but things move at the speed of Twitter, and so these challenges have increased and seem to follow a pattern, a professor (often but not […]

I mean it is out and about where people can just walk into places and events and buy it I had this cute idea that I would write a monthly update about how things are going with Written/Unwritten—as if the rest of the world would stop just because this book is out in the world. […]

It’s been a busy first month for Written/Unwritten and for me. The official release date was the day before the apocalypse, but even before the publication date response to the anthology have been overwhelmingly positive. At one point in the process of getting the book together I sighed to a friend that it was taking […]

Foundations Responding to the Calling: The Spirituality of Mentorship and Community in Academia Houston Baker, Jr with Ayanna Jackson-Fowler Building a Canon, Creating Dialogue Cheryl Wall with Rashida Harrison Navigations Difference without Grievance: Asian Americans as the Almost Minority Leslie Bow In Search of Our Fathers’ Workshops Lisa Sánchez González Identities Tenure in the […]